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@@ -663,3 +663,8 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
there, but that's it. Freeing memory in the callback is fine; doing
more than that is possible, but requires a lot of care and is best
avoided.
+--
+[mandatory]
+ DCACHE_RCUACCESS is gone; having an RCU delay on dentry freeing is the
+ default. DCACHE_NORCU opts out, and only d_alloc_pseudo() has any
+ business doing so.